Albert Speer was not only Hitler\'s architect and armaments minister, but the Fuhrer\'s closest friend--his "unhappy love." Speer was one of the few defendants at the Nuremberg Trials to take responsibility for Nazi war crimes, even as he denied knowledge of the Holocaust.
She died in 2012..
She had two children and two grandchildren and lived with her husband, the photographer Don Honeyman, in London.
Her books include Into Darkness: An Examination of Conscience, The Invisible Children, and Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth.
In America, she has written for the New York Times Magazine, the New York Review of Books, and Vanity Fair.
She has written extensively for London\'s Daily Telegraph magazine, the Sunday Times, and the Independent, as well as for Die Zeit and Le Nouvel Observateur. "Fascinating...
Not only a major addition to our knowledge of the Third Reich, but a stunning attempt to understand the nature of good and evil."--Newsday "More than a biography...
It also constitutes a perceptive re-examination of the mysterious appeal of Adolf Hitler."--San Francisco Chronicle About the Author: Gitta Sereny was one of Europe\'s foremost journalists with a special interest and expertise in the Third Reich.
Read as an inside account of the Third Reich, or as a revelatory unsparing yet compassionate study of the human capacity for evil, Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth is a triumph.
Out of hundreds of hours of interviews, Sereny unravels the threads of Speer\'s personality: the genius that made him indispensable to the German war machine, the conscience that drove him to repent, and the emotional wounds that made him susceptible to Hitler\'s lethal magnetism.
Now this enigma of a man is unveiled in a monumental biography by a writer who came to know Speer intimately in his final years.
Albert Speer was not only Hitler\'s architect and armaments minister, but the Fuhrer\'s closest friend--his "unhappy love." Speer was one of the few defendants at the Nuremberg Trials to take responsibility for Nazi war crimes, even as he denied knowledge of the Holocaust
